Forty years later, a series of spirited papers, bearing the signature Rumford, appeared in the Boston Centinel, which were collected and published in 1824, making a pamphlet of one hundred and forty pages; The author of these Essays maintains that the dead languages are no guide to the signification of English words' no guide to English grammar no benefit to style that classical literature is of little value as a source of knowledge that classical studies are not the best means of strengthening the understanding'; and of not much value as a facility to foreign living languages.'